Taylor Tackles her Dyslexia by Zoey Mayo

“It was hard because everyone said things like, ‘Read Harry Potter,’ read this or read that or they would say ‘wow your spelling is terrible.’ It was a more self-bullying almost done to where it was me putting myself down about it more than anyone else was. For a while I thought, ‘Am I dumb or something? I can’t read. I’m reading kindergarten books.’ That (anxiety) really started up in sixth grade, I think. It was enough to where I missed two months of school because of it. We got back from Mexico and I just thought, ‘I don’t want to go. One I’m sick and two I just don’t want to go.’ It was like being there I was constantly thinking, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.’ I wasn’t being bullied. No one was being mean to me. I was scared to go. I’ve always been that kid who holds stuff in until you’re literally about to explode and you’re crying over everything just all at once; just because you’re holding it in.”